OCR: “TALKING CORPSE” FRIGHTENS MEN ELKHART, Ind., May 21. (I.N.S.) When a New York Central express messenger heard rumbling grunts that appeared to come from a corpse in a coffin in the express car it was too much ghostly atmosphere for him. He signaled frantically for the train to stop here and leaped from the car even before the train had come to a full halt. As the express messenger fled from the scene he yelled out that he refused to ride any further with “a talking corpse.”

Two of the bravest remaining trainmen investigated the cause of the express messenger’s alarm. They boarded the express car. In the forward end was the coffin.

They, too, were startled to hear sounds almost like mutterings that seemed to come from the direction of the corpse. Investigation further, the tram-men discovered that the sounds came from a large box just in front of the coffin. The box contained a shipment of live full frogs. All this happened on Train No. 28 running between Chicago and Cleveland.

Source: Journal and Courier, 21 May 1929, Tue (Page 23).